How to get 10,000 followers on Twitter!

For some people, they still ask the question. What’s is this Twitter thing?

“Twitter is a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.

Twitter asks “what’s happening” and makes the answer spread across the globe to millions, immediately.” – Twitter.com

Ok… thanks Twitter… but what does that mean? What can it do for my business? is it effective? How much time do I have to spend doing this thing before it starts to generate income?

Let’s answer these questions starting with the most important being how much time before I see results?

How much time do I have to spend on twitter before it generates income? – MONTHS! YEARS!! you have to follow people in order to get followed back in most cases. You need to be constantly tweeting in order to be seen, and you need to interact with people who “mention you” in keeping context with what was said so you’re account doesn’t just seem like some robot.

Or you could automate much of this process…

I follow 800 NEW TARGETED leads a day! sounds like a lot of work… it is for those who don’t yet automate this. With the click of one button I follow 800. that’s right! One Click 800 new people I am following based on keywords. Statistically 1/3 of them will follow you back.  If you’re a local store that everyone likes and you’re following based on geographically area as well, your stats will probably be Higher. MUCH higher.

Is it effective for business? – ABSOLUTELY!
People Love social networking… and in my opinion. Most people have a very short attention span, so you the micro blogging is a great way to effectively get information. It’s like, Get to the point already. With the limited space per micro blog or “tweet” you are FORCED to simply say what you want or need to say in one to two sentences.  Take this article for example… you can click the Tweet button on this page, and it tweets just the topic. If a person is interested… they’ll read the whole thing… Please, tweet this article right now and see the interface with twitter.

So let’s look at another aspect of this, let’s so you paid 140 dollars to get 10,000 followers.  20 dollars per month for one year. If after that year, you said, 10,000… that’s plenty, I don’t need or want anymore. You simple stop paying for this particular auto service and guess what… YOU STILL have 10,000 followers.

that’s what I call Non-Perishable Marketing! who wants to do something once and have it work for you for a lifetime. I know I do, I want to get paid on my work week after week after week. Not once.  So when I set up my repeat tweets, I set it up where my twitter automation tool will “re-tweet” things like, Check out my blog… visit me online… buy my book… various quotes or things people will find interesting. NOT ONCE… but let’s say I owned a resturaunt and we had a promotion to upgrade a small to a medium cup, or medium to large. I would  set up a tweet for every Monday morning to say “FREE upgrade on any size coffee this morning” and it would tweet that every week at 8am on Monday morning.  That’s POWERFUL!

Let’s say I’m a pastor…. a pastor? yes, a pastor! Every Sunday at 7, 8, 9, and 10 AM I want to tweet “Visit our Church in person or online at http://www.MyChurch.com”

Let’s say I am a roofer, plumber, painter, electrician, lawyer, doctor, dentist, teacher, bar tender, you name it! Anyone who wants to create a following of loyal, interested people. Develop better connections and create better customer experiences NEEDS to use a tool like this.